Archaeology at the Alcazar
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Do the archaeology of your Cleveland-area house: –My street has a dip. Is it a buried stream? –Why do Clevelanders landscape with boulders? –My house has stone trim. Where was it quarried? –Might I find an ancient arrowhead in my garden? Identify evidence for deep time in house & lot: –Sighting ancient landforms in the neighborhood. –Sourcing your house’s old brick and local stone. –Finding ancient history in old mortar and concrete. –Typing the rocks and rubble in your garden.
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- 2. Summer Fest talk/walk, Aug 10, 2014 Roy Larick, PhD Archaeology Alcazar Learn to think like a prehistoric archaeologist –My street has a dip. Is it a buried stream? –Why do Clevelanders landscape with boulders? –My house has stone trim. Where was it quarried? –Might I find an ancient arrowhead in my garden? Identify evidence for deep time in house & lot –Sighting ancient landforms in the neighborhood. –Sourcing your house’s old brick and local stone. –Finding ancient history in old mortar and concrete. –Typing the rocks and rubble in your garden. Cedar-Fairmount Summer Festival at the Finding deep time in your house and neighborhood 30-min introductory talk - 30-min neighborhod survey
- 3. Summer Fest talk/walk, Aug 10, 2014 Archaeology Alcazar Slides 4-10 Natural context for local building materials in the Cedar Fairmount neighborhood, Cleveland Heights. Slides 11-14 Readily identifiable small ‘lost’ local natural features. Slides 15-17 Local natural rock types in Cleveland-area houses/lots. Slides 18-19 Local gravel, clay & shale in common building materials. Slide 20 Very ancient projectile point types found on the East Side. at the
- 4. Hannibal & Feldmann 1985 Age of Fishes terrains, 360 million years ago Equator
- 5. Ice Age glacial retreat, <16 thousand years ago
- 6. Alcazar Hotel Ages of Fishes rocks Ice Age waters Cedar Fairmount Cedar-Fairmount neighborhood
- 7. Barton R. Deming house 2485 Fairmount, 1914. Berea Sandstone quarried on site House, 2256 Bellfield (1904) Faced with locally gathered glacial erratic boulders Alfred & Flora Cook house 2267 Bellfield. Built, 1913, Euclid bluestone & Berea SS Ambler Heights CedarHeights Kermode F. Gill house 2178 Harcourt, 1910. bluestone & sandstone Cedar Fairmount nature-culture weave © 2014 Bluestone Heights Martin Gale quarry Hts Med Bldg parking lot 1830s, Berea Sandstone Deming mini-gulch Berea Sandstone Glen Point quarry Euclid bluestone Delaware ravine Berea Sandstone Euclid Golf clubhouse Derbyshire Berea Sandstone Cleveland Memory Project Cleveland Memory Project R. Larick R. Larick R. Larick R. Larick W.C. Barrow Ambler ravine retaining wall Chestnut Hills at Elandon Euclid bluestone quarried on site North Euclid Heights Euclid Golf upper links Archaeology at the Alcazar D. Lawrence Little Italy D. Lawrence Maple Ridge Euclid Golf lower links Alcazar Detroit Free Press Collection
- 8. Cedar Fairmount natural landscape © 2014 Bluestone Heights Martin Gale quarry Hts Med Bldg parking lot 1830s, Berea Sandstone Deming mini-gulch Berea Sandstone Glen Point quarry Euclid bluestone Delaware ravine Berea Sandstone Cleveland Memory Project R. Larick W.C. Barrow North Archaeology at the Alcazar Maple Ridge Alcazar
- 9. Cedar Fairmount Euclid Golf, 1901-1915 © 2014 Bluestone Heights Euclid Golf clubhouse Derbyshire Berea Sandstone North Euclid Golf upper links Archaeology at the Alcazar D. Lawrence Little Italy Maple Ridge Euclid Golf lower links Alcazar Detroit Free Press Collection
- 10. Barton R. Deming house 2485 Fairmount, 1914. Berea Sandstone quarried on site House, 2256 Bellfield (1904) Faced with locally gathered glacial erratic boulders Alfred & Flora Cook house 2267 Bellfield. Built, 1913, Euclid bluestone & Berea SS Ambler Heights CedarHeights Kermode F. Gill house 2178 Harcourt, 1910. bluestone & sandstone Cedar Fairmount early suburban development © 2014 Bluestone Heights Martin Gale quarry Hts Med Bldg parking lot 1830s, Berea Sandstone Deming mini-gulch Berea Sandstone Cleveland Memory Project Cleveland Memory Project R. Larick R. Larick R. Larick Ambler ravine retaining wall Chestnut Hills at Elandon Euclid bluestone quarried on site North Euclid Heights Archaeology at the Alcazar D. Lawrence Little Italy D. Lawrence Maple Ridge Alcazar
- 11. Local Building Materials © 2014 Bluestone Heights buried stream sandstone outcrop Euclid bluestone Berea Sandstone granite cast stanchion low-fired clay high-fired shalesidewalk coarse mortar Local Sandstone Glacial Erratics quartzite ‘Developed’ Landforms Archaeology at the Alcazar Prehistoric Projectile Points Paleo-Indian (~10.000 years ago) Archaic (<7,500 years ago) block Local BrickLake Erie Beach Gravel
- 12. sandstone outcrops ‘Developed’ Landforms Berea Sandstone Euclid bluestone Sharon Sandstone Cooley Farms, Highland Hills Belvoir at Bluestone, South Euclid Harcourt Dr, Cleveland Heights
- 13. buried streams ‘Developed’ Landforms ‘Creek 5’, Euclid DeVoe Run, Euclid
- 14. granite Glacial Erratics quartzite Lake Shore Blvd, Euclid Gilchrist Dr, Euclid Brookwood Beach, Euclid
- 15. Berea Sandstone Local Sandstone Sidewalks Euclid bluestone Harcourt Dr, Cleveland Heights Fairview Rd, Little Italy
- 16. Berea Sandstone Random Rd, Little Italy Grandview Rd, Cleveland Heights Local Sandstone Ornamentation
- 17. Euclid bluestone Murray Hill Rd, Little Italy Hampshire Rd, Cleveland Heights Local Sandstone Ornamentation
- 18. Lake Erie Beach Gravel cast stanchion sidewalk concrete blocks coarse mortar Idlewild Beach, Euclid Euclid Beach pier, Cleveland
- 19. Local Clay and Shale low-fired clay brick high-fired shale brick
- 20. Prehistoric Projectile Points Paleo-Indian (~10.000 years ago) Archaic (<7,500 years ago) D. Lawrence Euclid Creek, South EuclidGilchrist Dr, Euclid